The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A man shot by an Albuquerque police officer is listed in critical condition at University of New Mexico Hospital today.
The 52-year-old man’s name hasn’t been released by police.
Albuquerque police spokesman John Walsh said an officer conducting a radar traffic operation near Academy Road and Burlison Drive Northeast spotted the man speeding in a car around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The officer pursued the man, but the driver kept going several blocks to his home on the 6400 block of Louise Place N.E., Walsh said. A second officer joined the pursuit, he said.
When the driver got out of his car and ran for the home, one officer ordered him to stop, Walsh said. The man didn’t stop, Walsh said, but turned around and appeared to have an object in his hand.
An officer, a 13-year veteran whose name has not been released, then shot the man once in the torso, Walsh said. The man underwent surgery Tuesday night, he said. As of early this morning, Walsh said, he was in critical condition but stable.
The man had at least one outstanding felony warrant for eluding a police officer, Walsh said.